Large companies like Monsanto will try and convince everyone their genetically modified cotton will yield a greater harvest for farmers. They say that about their genetically modified seeds, too. It all sounds good in the beginning.

However, the end results always sound a lot different.

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Just how "clean" is natural gas?

The National Wildlife Federation, based in the United States, works closely with hunters, fishermen and environmentalists, tells it like it is.

From the article:

In one of the driest regions of the country, groundwater is being polluted, pumped to the surface and dumped into holding ponds to evaporate. No other industry could get away with this, but in 2005 Congress exempted gas drillers from provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act by passing the “Halliburton loophole,” inserted into the law at the request of a former Halliburton executive, then vice president Dick Cheney. The 2005 Energy Bill also exempted drillers from storm water runoff provisions of the Clean Water Act. And Congress has provided exemptions from certain provisions of the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act—allowing gas companies to avoid reporting their toxic emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory.

Main oil pipeline breaks. Gets into small streams and threatens the Great Salt Lake.

Just when you think it will not happen in your nieghborhood, it does.

Practically everything we eat out of, drink out of, or simply use everyday comes from oil.

When we are done with it, we throw it in the trash where it eventually breaks down and pollutes our water and soil.

Why?

BP Will Not Cooperate with NOAA

I wonder why.... Well, actually I don't wonder why. It is very clear BP has a lot to hide.

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